Chapter 103: Ningde took the initiative to attack and crush the Persian army

Although Abbasid did not come to the front line in person this time, the commander-in-chief of the front line was his absolute confidant, and he was also a very calm and experienced military talent. After receiving orders from Abbasid the Great, he resisted the pressure from all sides to start a war as soon as possible, and made full preparations. He knew that war was not child's play, and that the opponents he faced were even more formidable. In particular, this battle was the first battle after the Abbasid Emperor's military reforms, and it was necessary to show military might. He believed that the only weakness of his opponent was that he was far from the rear and was fighting alone, so he commanded his army to take a sudden action and take advantage of the superiority of troops to surround the opponent on three sides overnight. In this way, it not only encircles the opponent, but also cuts off the supply channels of grain and grass in the opponent's rear. There is another one, although the opponent has his back to the Caspian Sea, although there is a lot of water, but it is undrinkable, there is a small river that flows into the Caspian Sea through the camp of the Ming army, which is the source of water for the Ming army, but after they surrounded the Ming army, they immediately sent people to cut off this small river, cutting off the water source of the Ming army.

Ning De and Li Kui were surprised when they heard that the water source had been cut off by the Persians, and they both knew that they had made a mistake that they should not have made, and they should have dug a well earlier. How many people, in a big camp, cut off the water source, it is very dangerous. They also know that they have encountered a tough opponent.

In fact, Ningde and they did a lot of intelligence work on the Persians, but they didn't get much information from Li Kui last time. They believed that the Persians would not be much stronger than the others, and that they were somewhat inferior to the enemy. The tactics they developed were still to use the existing camp to defend, use their firepower advantage, kill as many opponents as possible, and then counterattack.

However, the opponent cut off their water source, and immediately dug a well, and did not know when the water would be produced, but it was so close to the Caspian Sea that it was difficult to say whether it could be drunk.

Ning De thought for a moment and said to Li Kui and Sun Chuanting: "The Persians are using one hand, that is, they will wait until we have no water to drink and we can't fight before attacking, and according to the delta wing report, their artillery is not yet fully in place. I think we're going to have to change our style of play this time! ”

"Hmmm! I can't stand up to the beating this time! Li Kui said.

Sun Chuanting glanced at Ning De and asked, "Do you want to take the initiative?" ”

"Huh! Or Governor Sun understands me! "The Persians also made a mistake, because we always wanted to avoid fighting them, they thought we were cowardly. So they took a surprise move and surrounded us. They forgot that such a large encirclement was full of loopholes, and the defensive positions were all improvised and had no ability to withstand the impact at all. Also, their baggage team will inevitably fall behind and will not be in place immediately. Now is the time of great chaos. On the other hand, they thought that we, who were cowardly, would not leave the fortified camp to attack them. So we're going to take the initiative this time. Crush them in one fell swoop, then hunt them around! ”

Sun Chuanting nodded and said: "General Ning is reasonable, compared with them, our strength far surpasses them, but they don't know, how to fight the initiative is in our hands." ”

Li Kui thought for a while and said: "It's a pity that we still have fewer ships, otherwise we will use the ships to send out more troops, block their retreat from behind, and eliminate as many of them as possible." Of course, it's better to catch more prisoners. ”

"Haha!" Ning De and Sun Chuanting both laughed when they heard Li Kui's words.

Ningde said: "It's too late to build a ship!" However, I thought about it. Then he came to the map, "You see, to the west of our camp is the Caspian Sea, and the Persians have surrounded us from the north, east, and south. Shall we first attack the enemy in the south, tear a hole, our 1st Cavalry Corps and the Mongol cavalry, do not need to participate in the battle here, they go south along the coast of the Caspian Sea, looking for a place to ambush and intercept on the retreat of the Persians. The rest of our men and horses will soon disrupt the Persians, and after they have fled, it will be the First Cavalry Army and the Mongols! ”

Sun Chuanting said: "The attack time is still as soon as possible!" Although we still have some water in the cistern, we can't save enough today. ”

"It's going to take some time to prepare, but anyway, we're going to attack early tomorrow morning!" Ningde said, "Let the staff make a detailed plan immediately!" ”

"Shall we go straight to the next step and take all the Persians along the Caspian coast?" Li Kui asked.

"Try to do it, but we'll watch as we go." Ning De said firmly, "We can't waste ammunition in vain, and we can't fight a losing battle." Otherwise, do we still have the face to go back to the kiln? ”

"Haha!"

The three of them burst into laughter again!

Sun Chuanting said: "The generals of Yaogang can do business without fighting!" ”

Li Kui said: "Master Sun's words are right! We kiln gang people started from doing business. We used to go to war for business, and now war is business! No matter what your background is, when you go to Yaogang, you have to talk about doing business! Everything has to be counted! ”

The three of them studied the Persians as if they were goods, and regarded the war as a business, and the Persians knew about it, but they didn't know how they would feel.

Outside their camp in Ningde, the Persian Imperial army was building fortifications day and night. They also knew that without fortifications, it would be difficult to stop the opponent from breaking through. What they were afraid of was that the Ming army broke through and ran away. They didn't know that the staff officers in the big camp on the opposite side were racking their brains to plan how to eliminate as many of them as possible at the lowest cost.

The commander-in-chief of the Persian Empire's front, that night, rewarded the generals who had completed the encirclement of the Ming army in a surprise action the previous night. He told the generals: "Everyone! The completion of the encirclement today is a very crucial link in the completion of this campaign. You have to keep up the good work. I remind you that you must speed up the construction of fortifications and resolutely not let go of the Ming army. We have cut off their food routes, cut off their water sources, and soon they will be in chaos, and at this time, it is very easy for them to come out and break through desperately. When my artillery is fully in place, we will use our artillery fire to refuel the Ming army. At that time, everyone was lively to watch! ”

"Haha!" After everyone laughed for a while, the generals were also in high morale, and they all said that they would not relax and strive to completely annihilate the Ming army this time.

Ningde originally had an infantry corps, a side defense army, and two cavalry corps, according to their current combat strength, no one would be able to stop them all the way west. However, they came all the way, and the Northwest Frontier Army left a lot of officers and soldiers along the way, stationed in various places, and was also responsible for guarding the prisoners, building roads and bridges, and guarding the roads along the way. Basically stay on the road. A complete army, as well as two cavalry corps, an infantry corps, plus 10,000 Mongolian cavalry, and then a flight team, an independent artillery division and other special armies, mechanized infantry regiments.

After a day and a night of preparation, the day was just dawn, and the whole army had eaten the war meal, and they were all on standby waiting for the attack.

Ning De saw that the sky was getting brighter in the east, and said to Li Kui and Sun Chuanting: "I'm afraid we will have a busy day today, let's start early!" ”

Sun Chuanting nodded and did not speak. Li Kui said, "The brothers are ready, let's start!" ”

Ning De picked up the phone and ordered: "Fire!" ”

In the Persian camp, it was also the time when they began to make food, and many of them were building fortifications day and night, and they slept late, and many of them were still asleep. It's not time to eat yet.

The Persian soldiers who were in charge of looking out at the Ming army camp suddenly found that a fire suddenly flashed in the Ming army camp, and then the sound of rolling thunder exploding overhead, and the ground under their feet was also shaken and beating. The camp of the Persian Empire to the south of the Ming army camp also flashed in flames, and an even greater shock came.

More than 100 130-caliber cannons of the heavy artillery division concentrated their artillery fire and opened fire at the same time, opening fire on the Persians surrounding the south of their camp in Ningde, and immediately blew up these unobstructed tents and the half-erected fences, together with the Persian war horses and soldiers, into a pot of porridge.

The Persian officers and soldiers, who had never seen such artillery fire, fell into confusion at once, and the officers and soldiers who were not killed by the bombing and were awakened immediately crawled on the ground as soon as they climbed out of the tent, and they did not stop praying.

To the south, besieging Ningde, their camp was the Persian "Red Hat Army", which was mostly a tribal army of Turkmens. To the east was the regular army of the Persian Empire. The Red Hats did not expect that the first blow of the Ming army would fall on them. In fact, how do they know where the kiln gang people attacked, so they didn't care whether they were the Red Hat Army or the regular army.

As soon as the artillery fire extended, the Mongol cavalry took the lead, followed by the 1st Cavalry Army, and the brigade of cavalry rumbled over. They were under the command of Li Feng, commander of the First Army of the Yaogang Cavalry.

The screaming Mongols, stimulated by the fierce artillery fire, were so excited that one by one they rushed to the bombed-out Persian camp with their swords, and their sabers kept slashing the heads of the Persians who were not dead and dodging everywhere.

More than 10,000 Mongol cavalry, one in one formation and one cavalry corps, rushed along a wide front, swept aside, and almost killed not a single one of the more than 50,000 Persians in the south. This thunderclap was a burst of artillery bombardment, followed by a sudden blow from a large group of cavalry, which swept through like a strong wind. However, the cavalry cavalry of the First Army and the Mongol cavalry, killing the past did not stop and rushed south.

At this time, in the eastern battalion of the main force of the Persian Empire, the officers and soldiers who were awakened by the artillery fire of Ningde had just begun to assemble urgently. The generals of the Persian Empire, who were still full of ambition last night, had never heard of such dense and fierce artillery fire, and they were a little unrefreshed today.

The commander-in-chief of the Persian Imperial army was also frightened, but he was a battle-hardened general, and he calmed down, and he judged that the Ming army was carrying out concentrated artillery bombardment on the Red Riding Hood Army south of the camp, and it was likely that the Ming army got that the army in that direction was the Red Hat Army, and they wanted to find a weak opponent to attack. Maybe they wanted to escape from there. He ordered an urgent assembly and sent men to support the Red Hats to the south.

However, it was not a simple matter for the group of men and horses to gather, and before they could finish gathering, the cannonballs of the kiln gang people smashed at them again. This time difference was carefully planned by the staff officers. In the ranks of the Persian Empire, which had not yet finished the queue, powerful 130-caliber heavy artillery shells fell, and each shell could explode a burst of flesh and blood rain and mist.

The army of the Persian Empire, which had strict military discipline, was also blown up all at once. The officers gave stern orders, but they could not withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery. Soon the officers were also lying on the ground, not daring to get up. This camp was the largest camp of the Persians, with more than 200,000 troops stationed and more than 100,000 transporters. As a supplement to the 130 heavy guns, hundreds of 120 heavy mortars, 60 guns, and nearly 100 infantry guns joined the shelling.

When the 130 heavy artillery shells were dropped on the Persian camp in the north, several gates of the camp in Ningde were opened at the same time, and the artillery wagons and cars of the artillery carriage regiment, the mechanized infantry regiment, and the tracked tractor of the heavy artillery division drove out first, followed by the cavalry and infantry of the second cavalry corps.

Twenty artillery wagons of the artillery regiment and nearly a hundred tracked tractors, lined up, followed by the four-wheel drive cars of the mechanized infantry regiment, pressed towards the camp east of the Persians in black smoke.

The officers and soldiers who had not yet recovered from the shock of the shelling felt the sound of the earth shaking continuously, and a row of monsters emitting black smoke pressed in the direction of the Ming camp, and the Persians did not know what these demons were. But when these demons crushed their fortifications and began to breathe tongues of fire at them, reaping their lives one after another, the Persians in the distance began to flee for their lives. In particular, the officers and soldiers who grabbed the war horses fled south without their lives.

At first, the Persian commander-in-chief said that he would not leave anything, and that he would organize officers and soldiers to resist, but the general next to him almost cried and said, "Open your eyes and see, can you still organize now?" Let's go! After saying that, he ordered his own soldiers to drag the commander-in-chief and flee south.

The pity is that the Persian army in the direction of the north, they are also the Red Hats, they escaped from the camp, and there was no way to escape south, so they had to leave the camp, flee east, and then bypass, and then flee south.

This time, the number of Persians was too much, and Ningde and they fought a rout, not encirclement and annihilation. After the defeat, the Second Cavalry Corps went out to hunt down the fleeing Persian Empire officers and soldiers. The soldiers of the mechanized infantry regiments were more than willing to fight such battles, and they drove their cars to chase the cavalry on the steppe, which was even easier than hunting. Those cavalrymen, one by one, were like targets.

The infantry felt that such a battle was boring, and their remaining task was to clean up the battlefield and count the spoils.

The delta wing pilot and three planes also took off and took part in the hunt. Their important task was to show the Second Cavalry Corps where the piles of Persians were to be, and the cavalry came to hunt according to the objectives they had instructed.

It was fought until the sun turned west, and the hunting everywhere was over.

At this time, what made Ning De and Li Kui cry and laugh was that the convoy of rocket artillery divisions rushed over.

The commander of the rocket artillery division is Li Wei's cronies, and he is familiar with Ningde and Li Kui, and the level of this division commander is not lower than that of the army commander. We hurried and still didn't catch up. We heard the sound of artillery from afar. Originally, we wanted you to provide the coordinates so that we could support you with long-range rocket artillery. But I'm afraid that I won't be able to make it happen and blow you up. ”

Li Kui smiled and said, "I heard that you are useless in the north. It's bad luck! ”

"Come on! We followed General Jiang around the northern prairie, but it didn't work at all. I thought I could come to you and let us open the meat! After our rocket artillery is improved, we also have to see the actual combat effect! The division commander said helplessly.

Ningde comforted him and said: "The battle is still fought, and the Persian Empire will not surrender after such a defeat!" ”

At this time, the staff officer came over and reported that General Li (Feng) had surrounded and annihilated a part of the Persian army!

Ning De hurriedly took the telegram and looked at it.

After the Persian Empire's army was dispersed, it rushed south without a life, and the broken army numbered hundreds of thousands of people, which was also overwhelming.

After Li Feng and the others slashed and rushed over, they walked all the way to the south without stopping. Finding a recess formed by two earthen slopes, Li Feng's people and the Mongols felt that it was a good place to set up an ambush. They laid an ambush behind the dirt bag.

When they saw the dust in the distance from the dirt bags, they knew that the Persians had arrived.

But Li Feng suddenly felt a little embarrassed. It turned out that the Persians were so scattered that it was difficult to surround them all at once. If you wait for the latter one, it will be easy to let the previous one go.

The one who hit the front and the one who was behind fled again.

In the end, Li Feng made up his mind not to let the Persians go. When the Persians had fled first and entered the circle of ambush in the col, they fired light and heavy machine guns at the same time, and then the cavalry rushed through and cut off the rest of the Persians.

The current Persians have no intention of resisting at all. Those who entered the ambush circle were quickly eliminated. But when they sent men to pursue the Persians behind, the Persians had already fled!

Li Feng and their battles wiped out more than 30,000 Persians. But there were still many Persians out there.

However, Li Feng and the others intercepted here, but concentrated the Persian rout, which was very scattered, and the Persian rout.

The commander-in-chief of the Persians, who fled with the rout of the brigade, saw that there was no way to retreat ahead, and he began to order the generals around him to gather the rout and organize the soldiers.

What he didn't expect was that they had really gathered nearly 100,000 soldiers, and they were all cavalry who fled here. But the way back was blocked, and it was impossible to go the way it was. So they went east, trying to bypass it, and went another way to the Persian plateau.

They walked into a flood gully and stopped. But they had so many armies, and they had no food or grass. There was no way, so they started killing horses. In order to kill the horses, Persia almost fought, no one wanted to kill their own horses, they knew that no horse must not be able to keep up with the brigade, that is only a dead end, killing a horse is the same as killing yourself.

However, at this time, everyone's life is very small for the entire army. The officers selected fat horses and killed a batch. In the evening they set up a fire and ate horse meat.

Ningde and the others received Li Feng's report and ordered them to leave a part of the soldiers and horses to continue to block this retreat. Follow the Persian routs heading east, and try to destroy as many of their living forces as possible.

At dawn, Ningde sent planes to reconnoiter at low altitude in the direction of the Persians fleeing.

As a result, the Persians, who were hiding in the impact ditch, avoided searching on the ground, but they were not expected to be discovered by planes in the air.

The Persians still don't know that the Yaogang soldiers want to be stationed here for a long time, and the coordinates are marked in various key places. There is a mountain bag nearby, there are detailed coordinates. Combined with this marked earthen bag, the plane calculated the coordinates of the impact ditch where the Persians were hiding.

The commander of the rocket artillery division in the command headquarters looked at the map and said to Ning De excitedly: "General Ning, our rocket artillery can completely cover them in an hour!" ”